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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C, Roprnson, 53. J. R, SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Sxrppy, 65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 8.
C. P. LINDSLEY,’75S. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. VAN INGEN, ’91 8.
W. G. Daaaert, ’80. P. Jay, 92.
EDITOR.
Lewis 8. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, 780,
ASSISTANT EDITOR,
E. J. THompson, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR,
FRED. M. Davrizs, '99.
PRESTON KUMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. TENNEY, 1900, Special.
Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. 0.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., May 12, 1898.
THE YAUCE PLATOON.
It was not easy to keep still when the
enlistments from Yale students began.
It was probably well to do it, for there
was, to put it mildly, no very great
scarcity of patriotic enthusiasm on the
Campus. And the WEEKLY tried to be
fairly silent until it was all over.
Now that these boys have done that
which their warm hearts told them to
do, we must send our blessing to them.
And we believe we may send it in the
name of Yale. The Yale platoon of
artillery will form a very goodly com-
pany in the army of the great Republic.
They were the chosen men of their
classes. This was not a set of adven-
turous, light-headed fellows. Their
leaders and many others were those who
had borne serious responsibilitiesamong
their fellows here; who had cool heads
as well as true hearts. They have
weighed the case very seriously. Since
they could go; since no overwhelm-
ing duty made it necessary that they
should remain behind, it became a con-
trolling conviction with them that their
country of right demanded the best,
and that all they could give or do was
little enough. If they had education
and peculiar advantages of training and
environment, so much the more they
felt that they were of service. And in
that spirit they went into the company
and in that spirit they became a part of
the forces of Connecticut for the na-
tional defense, and popularity and re-
spect were theirs at once.
The young and educated man, Mr.
Higginson told the Harvard boys,
makes the best soldier. These young
men will make good soldiers. If they
must face the sternest scenes that the
clash of nations may produce, their
records, we may safely say now, will be
such as will help to lift war out of hell’s
horrors to heights of noblest deeds.
And Yale is better for their having
gone. And the educated people of this
country, for whom she stands, are
stronger in their influence in the coun-
try because the best sons of the great
mother so willingly offered their all
when their nation called.
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PUNISHMENT FOR CHEATING.
Harvard has relaxed a little the
severity of the discipline first proposed
for those detected in cheating. It was
at first proposed to dismiss a man de-
tected in handing in written work which
was not his own and then to post his
name: The Harvard Crimson protested
against the posting as the infliction of
a disgrace which might follow a man
through life. The WrEKLY expressed
at that time the opinion that hardly
any punishment was too severe for this
iniquity. The very extreme measures
originally proposed seemed to fit the.
for any’
necessity of the occasion,
penalty must strike hard if it is to dis-
lodge a prejudice, an ethical miscon-
ception, which looks on one kind of
dishonesty in an entirely different light
from that in which upright men regard
most false actions.
The Harvard Faculty do not intend
to make public the name of the offen-
der, but to summarily remove him and
make public announcement that action
had been taken of this nature and that
the name of the offender is known to
the members of the Faculty. There
have been differences of opinion as to
the advisability of the extreme measures
originally proposed, but on this basis
all those of different opinion are united.
It may be wise for secondary reasons
to take this step towards more lenient
treatment, but we are still of the opinion
that hardly anything can be too severe
for such cases. The student mind can-
not be allowed to be warped by hope-
lessly false moral ideas.
It is only comparatively recently that
the authorities here at Yale, according
to the opinion of many, have risen to
a conception of the gravity of this
offense, and have shown a willingness,to
meet it with the unwavering severity for
which it calls. Yale’s ‘record in this
respect is not what it should be, and
for this, both Faculty and students are
jointly responsible.
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There is just one candidate for the
vacancy on the Corporation. In this
case, one is amply sufficient. It is a
pleasure to record that there will be
no contest over the successor to the
Hon. Henry E. Howland of the Class
of Fifty-four.
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The Springfield Republican suggested
that the gift from Yale to the new
cruiser should be in the form of the
good old mascot ‘Handsome Dan” in
eternal brass. This would have meant
years of competition by sculptors. of
two continents to reproduce this form
so as to meet the approving eye of the
Yale family. The scheme is ideal and
idyllic, but the Deweys are not working
on just this time schedule.
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We learn from one of the reliable
evening papers that Mr. Frank Thom-
son, the President of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., has given a $35,000 yacht
to Harvard University, for the purpose
of allowing Captain Robert Johnson
Cook suitable -accommodations for
coaching the Harvard Crew. Mr. Cook
has been interviewed on the subject and
has expressed his interest and pleasure
in the news. He said that he had sup-
posed that he was assigned for service
indefinitely on the well-known Quinni-
piac patrol boat, the Yale. It is to be
assumed, however, that Captain Cook
will show his discipline by accepting
service at any place in these martial
times.
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The response of Yale to the request
for funds for the gift to the cruiser’ has
been of a kind to make the Yale heart
glad. Those who have not yet contri-
buted may still have their gift go into
the common fund for the guns and the
colors, by forwarding it to this office.
Judge Howland cannot
“BOSCABELLO” AT HARVARD,
Harvard Professors Take Sides on
the War Question.
[Correspondence of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY.]
Next to the functions of Commencement
week, the annual Hasty Pudding Play
takes precedence in Harvard’s social cal-
endar. The play this year, “ Boscabello,”
has been presented to crowded houses,
both in the club theatre at Cambridge, and
at the Bijou Opera House in Boston. The
audience which gathered to witness the
final Boston performance was the largest
in the history of Hasty Pudding dramatics.
The scene of the play this year is the
mythical island of ‘'Boscabello,” where
Captain Kidd’s treasure was reputed to
be buried. The island is commanded by
a noble spaniard, General Bluff. During
the first act a shipwrecked party of Bosto-
nians arriveson the scene, one of whom,
Phil. Space, a reporter for the Fireside
Companion, at the conclusion of the farce,
kills the bellowing bull, who guards the
ground above the buried treasure.
The libretto of the play this year was
fully up to the standard of. previous per-
formances, while the music was excep-
tional. Captain Rand of the _ baseball
team composed the music, and the songs
and libretto were written by four members
of the senior class.
The best acting was done by J. F. Brice,
who, in the réle of Lord Howe Poore,
correspondent for the London Hard
Times, gave an admirable impersonation
of a traveling member of the English
nobility. The difficult part of ‘ Miss
Holda Penn, reporter for the Ladies’
Home Journal,” as played by C. N. L.
Johnson, with a dashing feminine manner,
would have done credit to a female detec-
tive. The veteran Harvard football guard,
Norton Shaw, caused much amusement as
the matronly Mrs. Beacon, the wifeofa
Boston Banker, and R. de K. Gilder inthe
roleof Penelope Beacon, her daughter,
made a typical “ blue-blooded Back Bay
Swell.” The other parts were well taken.
The chorus was excellent throughout,
and a hornpipe by “six jolly tars” was
the most attractive of the specialties.
Four “ Daughters‘of Piracy” entertained
with stories of the great deeds of their
ancestors.
The Cambridge Fire Department, which
proved so inefficient in the recent dormi-
tory fire, came in for repeated “ roasting,”
and there were the customary grinds on
the faculty.
DISCUSSION ABOUT THE WAR.
Harvard correspondents of Boston and
New York newspapers have entertained
the public with frequent interviews with
Harvard professors containing their views
upon the war with Spain.
When Professor Norton addressed his
class in Fine Arts a fortnight ago upon the
causes and purpose of the war, his remarks
were extensively reported and caused
intense resentment among certain Harvard
men who are enthusiastically supporting
the war policy. Prof. Norton was
LIBERALITY IN
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A case in point is the recent an-
nouncement of the New York Life
Insurance Co., concerning the effect
On policies in this company held by
those who might enlist in the army
or navy of the United States, in case
of war. The company has sent out
a notice that all those now holding its
policies and all who may secure its
policies between now and the actual
outbreak of hostilities, if that time
ever comes, would receive the full
benefit therefrom, without the pay-
ment of any other than the regular
rates now in force.
NEW YORK LIFE
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JOHN A. MCCALL, Pres’?.
SENTIMENT in BUSINESS
It is often proclaimed that
it does not exist. But it
does exist. It grows from
the healthy germ of con-
fidence, and persists tena-
ciously. But it is not worth
a shuck as an asset unless
the conditions which pro-
duced it are maintained and
developed. We recognize
and act on this fact. We
take all sound means to
keep the Yale sentiment,
graduate and undergraduate,
in our favor.
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“Dean.
promptly branded as a Tory by the major-
ity of the Boston papers, and letters were
published about the Toryism of Harvard.
Since then other professors, including Me-
Vane and Hart of the Department of
History, have spoken in disapproval of the
war, while Professor Pierce and others
heve supported the conduct of the admin-
istration.
A lively discussion has ensued as to
just what Professor Norton did say to his
class. He was reported to have character-
ized the war as “unjust” and unnecessary
and to have said that the army was no
place for college students and discouraged
enlistment. Since the reports appeared,
however, his friends have repudiated these
remarks as inaccurate, and Professor Nor-
ton and Professor Hollis (formerly in the
United States navy) have consented to
speak in Cambridge on the war question.
As they are understood to hold opposite
views upon the justification for the war,
an interesting discussion is anticipated.
J. Weston ALLEN.
Nautical Almanacs, 1898; Ephemeris
and Nautical Almanac, 1808; Bow-
ditch’s Navigator; Tide Tables, 1808;
Coast Pilots; U. S. Government
Charts of all ports Long Island Sound
and adjacent waters, and of the Atlantic
Coast from Maine to Mexico—cover-
ing the present fields of “War opera-
tions’ — Kept on hand at the New
Haven Custom House (P. O. Build-
ing), Hydrographic Charts of all the
seas and coasts of the world supplied
on short notice. Passports supplied in
three days’ time.—Adzv.
War Extras—the naval reserves.—
Yale Record.
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“T am on the dog watch,” lamented
the hot-frankfort man as he looked for
a customer.—VYale Record.
LOAFING IN
NEW HAVEN.
Did you ever try it at this time of
year? From now on to the end
of June there is not a _ better
place for rest and for fun.
NEW HAVEN HOUSE—
MOSELEY’S NEW HAVEN
HOUSE—is ready to take care
of you in its thoroughly com-
fortable homelike way. For
more than a quarter of a century
it has been the headquarters of
Yale’s visitors. It has more
reason than ever for continuing
to be Yale headquarters.
The
